Over the last few years there has been a lot of fanfare around open source companies and their liquidation events. Most of the news has been around Sun’s billion dollar acquisition of MySQL or the Citrix acquisition of Xen and even Yahoo’s acquisition of Zimbra. In contrast there was little attention paid to the SourceFire. [...]

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Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed.

I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed.  It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race [...]

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Raven Zachary, Research Director at the 451 Group along with Brenon Daly, just released a brief on open source mergers and acquisitions, "Open Source Q&A comes of Age". 
Their summary indicates a considerable growth trend:
After several years of mostly one-off deals, open source deal flow took off in 2007, setting a new record for M&A in [...]

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Simon says,"Sun’s buying MySQL for just shy of $1 billion." I guess all bets are off on the IPO. That gives Sun the full stack OS to apps now and puts them on par with Oracle at least for telling that story. That leads me to speculate with Oracle telling the same story, "Does Red [...]

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